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Ron Stang

Ron Stang is a freelance writer and radio newsmagazine producer in Windsor, Ontario.

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The Road to Hell

A Canadian journalist wonders if aid workers are just new colonialists June 2009
When I think of a contemporary western aid worker, the image is that of an educated liberal steeped in the sociology of development theory. He or she has studied books on the history of colonialism, multinational corporate exploitation and the deceptive “tied aid” that even supposedly enlightened countries such as Canada use as a quid pro quo to ensure that our economy benefits from the…